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1 Department of History 1 Department OF HISTORYThe Department of History at Texas A& M offers the , , The faculty teach over one hundred undergraduate courses onpeoples, ideas, and cultures from around the world and across the ages,and are devoted to developing students' critical thinking, reading, andwriting skills. A major in History affords students both a broad educationand valuable practical skills. By acquiring familiarity with people indiverse times, places and circumstances, students of History develop asophisticated human empathy which is the key to good scholarship andgood citizenship students rely upon a major in History as preparation for acareer in teaching as well as graduate study in law, business, publicadministration, international relations and theology.

2 A small numberpursue graduate degrees in History itself. Other History majors seekpostgraduate employment in business management, advertising andpublic relations, government service, museum and archival work, editorialand publishing work, park interpretation and administration, non-profitorganizations, and professions requiring research and bibliographic , Armando C, Associate ProfessorHistoryPHD, Indiana University, 1994 Anderson, Terry H, ProfessorHistoryPHD, Indiana University, 1978 Bach, Damon R, LecturerHistoryPHD, Texas A&M University, 2013 Blanton, Carlos K, ProfessorHistoryPHD, Rice University, 1999 Bouton, Cynthia A, ProfessorHistoryPHD, SUNY Binghamton, 1985 Brooks, Charles E, Associate ProfessorHistoryPHD, University of Buffalo, 1988 Broussard, Albert S, ProfessorHistoryPHD.

3 Duke University, 1977 Cameron, David J, LecturerHistoryPHD, Texas A&M University, 2017 Cobbs, Elizabeth A, ProfessorHistoryPHD, Stanford University, 1988 Collopy, William F, LecturerHistoryPHD, Texas A&M University, 2011 MLA, University of St. Thomas, 2006 Coopersmith, Jonathan, ProfessorHistoryPHD, University of Oxford, 1985 Dawson III, Joseph G, ProfessorHistoryPHD, Louisiana State University and A&M University, 1978 Dror, Olga, Associate ProfessorHistoryPHD, Cornell University, 2003 Emre, Side, Assistant ProfessorHistoryPHD, University of Chicago, 2009 Foote, Lorien L, ProfessorHistoryPHD, University of Oklahoma - Norman, 1999 Gunter, Rachel M, LecturerHistoryPHD, Texas A&M University, 2017 Haefeli, Evan P, Associate ProfessorHistoryPHD, Princeton University, 2000 Hatfield, April L, Associate ProfessorHistoryPHD, Johns Hopkins University, 1997 Hernandez, Sonia, Associate ProfessorHistoryPHD, University of Houston, 2006 Hinojosa, Felipe, Associate ProfessorHistoryPHD.

4 University of Houston, 2009 Holzweiss, Robert F, LecturerHistoryPHD, Texas A&M University, 2001 Hudson, Angela P, ProfessorHistoryPHD, Yale University, 2007 Hudson, David R, Instructional Associate ProfessorHistoryPHD, Texas A&M University, 1998 Kamphoefner, Walter D, ProfessorHistoryPHD, University of Missouri, 1978 Kim, Hoi-Eun, Associate ProfessorHistoryPHD, Harvard University, 2006 Kirkendall, Andrew J, ProfessorHistoryPHD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 19962 Department of HistoryLenihan, John H, Associate ProfessorHistoryPHD, University of Maryland, 1976 Linn, Brian M, ProfessorHistoryPHD, Ohio State University, 1985 Livesay, Harold C, ProfessorHistoryPHD, Johns Hopkins University, 1970 MacNamara, Lawrence T, Assistant ProfessorHistoryPHD, Columbia University, 2015 McInnis, Verity G, LecturerHistoryPHD, Texas A&M University, 2012 McNamara, Sarah J, Assistant ProfessorHistoryPHD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016 Parker, Jason C, Associate ProfessorHistoryPHD, University of Florida, 2002 Reese, Roger R, ProfessorHistoryPHD, The University of Texas, 1990 Resch, Robert P, Associate ProfessorHistoryPHD, University of California Davis, 1985 Riegg, Stephen B, Assistant ProfessorHistoryPHD, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016 Rosenheim, James M, ProfessorHistoryPHD, Princeton University, 1981 Rouleau, Brian J, Associate ProfessorHistoryPHD, University of Pennsylvania, 2010 Schloss, Rebecca H.

5 Associate ProfessorHistoryPHD, Duke University, 2003 Schwartz, Daniel L, Associate ProfessorHistoryPHD, Princeton University, 2009 Seipp, Adam R, ProfessorHistoryPHD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005 Smith, Philip M, Instructional Associate ProfessorHistoryPHD, Texas A&M University, 2007 Stranges, Anthony N, Associate ProfessorHistoryPHD, University of Wisconsin - madison, 1977 Unterman, Katherine R, Associate ProfessorHistoryPHD, Yale University, 2011 Vaught, David J, ProfessorHistoryPHD, University of California, Davis, 1997 Weber, Nathaniel R, LecturerHistoryPHD, Texas A&M University, 2016 Wood, Julia E, Assistant ProfessorHistoryPHD, Yale University, 2011 Majors Bachelor of Arts in History ( )Minors History Minor ( )CoursesHIST 101 Western Civilization to 1660 Credits 3.

6 3 Lecture Hours.(HIST 2311) Western Civilization to 1660. Ancient civilizations, Greek,Roman and Asian; Christianity; medieval civilization in west, easternEurope; political, social and intellectual developments from earliesthuman cultures to 102 Western Civilization Since 1660 Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours.(HIST 2312) Western Civilization Since 1660. Religious, dynastic andimperial developments; Industrial Revolution; western democracies; riseof nationalism and communism; central and eastern Europe; intellectualrevolution; World Wars I and II and the contemporary 103 World History to 1500 Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours.(HIST 2321) World History to 1500. Development of major world societiesin the premodern era; emergence of agrarian-based modes of production,political states, religious economy and a global division of systems;Eurasian world system and the civilizations of Africa and the 104 World History Since 1500 Credits 3.

7 3 Lecture Hours.(HIST 2322) World History Since 1500. Interaction of major worldsocieties in the modern era; emergence of the modern world-economyand a global division of labor; European imperialism and colonialism andreactions in Africa, Asia and Latin 105 History of the United StatesCredits 3. 3 Lecture Hours.(HIST 1301) History of the United States. Colonial heritage; Revolution;adoption of Constitution; growth of nationalism and sectionalism; CivilWar; of History 3 HIST 106 History of the United StatesCredits 3. 3 Lecture Hours.(HIST 1302) History of the United States. Since reconstruction; newsocial and industrial problems; rise of progressivism; emergenceas a world power; World War I; reaction and New Deal; World War II;contemporary 107 Introduction to the Health HumanitiesCredits 3.

8 3 Lecture to the methods and approaches of the health humanities;exposure to key scholarship in this field as well as major methods andapproaches; application of such skills to the analysis of cultural casestudies such as illness narratives or contemporary debates in 210 Russian CivilizationCredits 3. 3 Lecture History , culture and society from origins to the present; rise ofthe Russian Empire; autocracy; modernization without liberalization;reforms, reaction, revolution; development of Communist regime;continuity from Imperial to Soviet period in industrialization, bureaucracyand treatment of peasants, nationalities and intellectual opposition;Gorbachev and a new " 213 History of EnglandCredits 3. 3 Lecture , Saxon and Norman origins; national development; strugglesbetween church and state; crown and nobles; nobles and commons;development of 214 History of EnglandCredits 3.

9 3 Lecture and Industrial Revolutions; relations with Ireland; evolution ofdemocracy; struggles with France and Napoleon; social legislation in the20th century; growth of Empire until World War 220 History of Christianity: Origins to the ReformationCredits 3. 3 Lecture of Christian doctrine, ecclesiastical organization, and religiouspractice, origins through Reformation, with emphasis on religion andsociety; life and teachings of Jesus; apostolic church; patristic period;Christianization of Roman Empire and northern Europe; monasticism;medieval church; Gregorian reform; heresy; papal monarchy; schism andconciliarism; reformations of the sixteenth Listing: CLAS 220 and RELS 221/RELS 221 History of IslamCredits 3. 3 Lecture to the History of Islam, from the origins of the religion to thepresent; development of Islamic law; gender issues; expansion of Islamto Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia; globalized Listing: RELS 221/HIST 226 History of TexasCredits 3.

10 3 Lecture Hours.(HIST 2301) History of Texas. History of Texas from Spanish period topresent day. Stress placed upon period of Anglo-American settlement,revolution, republic and development of modern 230 American Military History , 1609 to PresentCredits 3. 3 Lecture events, personalities and technologies related to American 232 History of American Sea PowerCredits 3. 3 Lecture of American sea power from the 18th century to 234 European Military HistoryCredits 3. 3 Lecture societal involvement, democratization of war, technology,strategy, military thought and 242 United States Maritime HistoryCredits 3. 3 Lecture of American maritime History from colonial times to 258 American Indian HistoryCredits 3. 3 Lecture of American Indian History ; Pre-Columbian, First Contact, ColonialConquest, Differentiation between cultural groups; Reservation period,twentieth-century self-determination, and 280 The Historian s CraftCredits 3.